The research investigates the different policies for the development of rail transport infrastructures in Europe. The effects on the competitiveness of the different national rail supply industries are evaluated

The main goal of the paper is to interpret the concepts of national and linguistic identity/diversity in the perspective of ideological control, by analysing both the managerial discourses and the work practices. We have studied how identity and diversity discourses reflect existing managerial...

The main goal of the paper is to interpret the concept of organizational change in the perspective of critical management studies, by analyzing both the discourses and the control practices used by management. We aim at denaturalize the concept of change related to transition from a bureaucratic...

This paper is related to our previous work (submitted to the 6th New Institutional Workshop, Lyon, 2009) dealing with the analysis of the evolution of the Italian Temporary Work Agencies’ field (TWAs) through the new institutional logics approach. Through this approach, we aimed to analyze the...

The aim of this research is to analyze governance models for tariff integration systems in the local public transport sector both in Italy and in some regions of Europe. In particular, it aims to study and compare coordination models chosen by the key players, their role (especially that of the...

In this work we make use of the concept of policy networks to introduce the main consequences underlying the building and establishing of a transport infrastructure for enhancing mobility. Our interest is connected with the vast domain of inter-organizational relations for transport systems:...

This paper is focused on cultural due diligence as a tool to handle the changes related to a merger and acquisition process. The main goal is to provide a framework to handle the whole merger process in a proactive perspective to managing changing. For a due diligence to be strategic in the...

The main purpose of the paper is to develop a theoretical model concerning the relations among some variables of organizational design and the level, type and nature of the conflict in family firms. The conflict is analyzed as a dependent variable with respect of: altruism, decisional...

The research develops a theoretical framework for understanding the complex relationship between organizational structures and processes and the new ICT technologies. The most recent and innovative approaches are presented and discussed